Privacy/PriMo

Privacy Contribution Pathway at Mozilla

PriMo is short for "Privacy at Mozilla". We are privacy enthusiasts committed to .... There are several pathways to PriMo, so you can choose the one that works best for you. If you're a video editor with a passion for privacy, we'd love your help making our online teaching tools really pop. Want to practice you presentation skills? We've got content you can present. Whatever your skills or interests are, if you've got a passion for privacy, we've got a place for you.

The PriMo program aims to empower and support volunteer Mozillians who have a passion for privacy, whether it's sharing privacy with others in their region/locale, contributing technical skills to the privacy bug review process or Privacy Council, or other ways to get involved. We've defined several clear pathways to get you started.

Step One - Become a Privacy Action Taker

The Privacy Action Taker badge represents a personal commitment to understanding Web data privacy and protection. This badge recognizes self-assessed activity in any and all of the following categories.

• Read Mozilla's Privacy Principles: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/
• Enable Do Not Track ("DNT") on your browser - or show one other person how to do it: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/dnt/
• Download Lightbeam and check yourself out - or show one other person how it works: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam
• Download another privacy-related add-on - or recommend one to one other person: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/privacy-security/
• Teach someone about privacy: https://laura.makes.org/thimble/privacy-and-security-teaching-kit

Step Two - Choose Your Pathway

Ready to get more involved? Choose your pathway based on whether you're a techie or a non-techie. Each pathway has some suggested projects where you can get involved, based on your interests and skills. We'd love to have your help!

Non-Technical Pathways

Privacy Education

Mozilla believes privacy is a key part of web literacy. You can help teach privacy, develop some online curriculum, or both. Read more here.

If privacy or security is your profession, a Webmaker goal is to get privacy and security domain experts to collaborate with the Webmaker community. Together privacy experts and education experts could contribute to a series of Teaching Kits and activities around Privacy, Security and the Web, to cover all the skills listed under these competencies in depth and at multiple levels (e.g. the basic intro versus an advanced Teaching Kit) and for various audiences.

Whether privacy is your profession or a passion, you can get involved an teach others how to protect their privacy and security online - and earn badges for your efforts.

Where to teach privacy:

• Local schools, churches, libraries
• Local universities - if you're a student, consider joining the Firefox Student Ambassadors

How to teach privacy:

• Use these Webmaker resources to teach others how to put their privacy first
• Share this list of resources
• Create new Webmaker privacy makes (add your ideas here)
• Provide feedback on existing privacy makes.
• Seek out existing privacy content that could become part of Webmaker (add your ideas here)
• Propose or join a content sprint or design jam Here's an example.

The Webmaker team is working on a bookmarklet that will allow you to tag stuff you find on the web with the Privacy Web Literacy competency. You'll also be able to pull good stuff into Webmaker through the MakeAPI soon. In the meantime, as a first step, add a resource that you think is a good fit to the form. Next step, talk to the content owner to see if they'd like to work with you to add their content in WebMaker.

Movie Screenings

Do you enjoy showing a film and leading a discussion? Our Utah team did just that with the award-winning documentary "Terms and Conditions May Apply." Read about their experience here.

Privacy Communications

Do you have an interest in finding and sharing privacy articles?

Join the Privacy Discussion Group and scan the web for privacy articles. Post an article to the discussion group at least once a month, and earn a news badge.

Do you have a gift for organizing content? We would love your help with our wiki page.

Want to help respond to / create answers to frequently asked privacy questions. We're investigating building a privacy module within SUMO.

Technical Pathways

Adopt a Privacy Bug

Go to Bugzilla and do a quick search on the keyword "privacy." Is there a bug you could help move in the right direction? Some are technical, but some aren't. Sometimes it's as simple as a link that doesn't work properly. Earn a privacy badge for bringing a privacy bug to resolution.

Adopt a Privacy Make

• Add some technical wizardry to the existing privacy makes.
  • Help add more examples, case studies and in-action photographs in addition to the texts. Pages like this one would look so extra-amazing if there were also some additional medias to get inspired by! Ex: Popcorn vids embedded, pics of Hive groups working with Popcorn, vids of hacker security experts talking about these issues at Chaos Communication Camp, examples of other events and teaching kits that use it too, Cryptoparty excerpts and photographs from around the world, etc.
  • Can you help the Utah team with their first privacy video?

Join the Privacy Technical Peers

Suggested reading and viewing: "The Privacy Engineer's Manifesto (book), (author talk) "Privacy training: Starting the Conversation" (presentation) (blog post)

Special Projects

When we have a time-sensitive contribution opportunity, we'll use this form to communicate it.